My List of Korean Movies
My list of Korean movies. My top 10 are in order of preference. The remainder of the list is just a list so I can track which movies I've seen.
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- DirectorKang Hyeong-cheolStarsCha Tae-hyunPark Bo-youngIl-Kwon AhnA radio DJ/entertainer in his 30s suddenly learns he may be a grandfather, thanks to a young girl who has a baby son and claims to be his daughter.COMEDY: aka Speedy Scandal, Scandal Makers. Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo (Cha Tae-hyun) now in his thirties, works as a talk radio DJ. A young woman named Hwang Jeong-nam sent a letter to his radio show describing her life growing up without a father. She asks for advice on seeking out her biological father. Nam Hyeon-soo has been using her story as fodder on his program for months and he encourages her to seek him out. Later, he finds out that HE is her biological father when she comes to his apartment. She is the product of his first sexual encounter - an encounter he had when he was in the ninth grade (with a woman five years older). Suddenly he's faced with coming to terms with the fact that he's a thirtysomething year-old father AND grandfather (as Jeong-nam is a single mother of a six year old boy). Jeong-nam and her son move into Hyeon-soo's apartment, intruding on his playboy lifestyle. He does his best to keep it under wraps, but he's dogged by an overzealous tabloid reporter who assumes that his relationship with Jeong-nam is a sexual relationship and it hits the tabloids.
- DirectorHyun-su KimSang-chan KimStarsCha Tae-hyunIm Chae-mooLee So-yeonA struggling rocker is finally discovered, but unfortunately by producers specializing in Korean "country music" (trot). Can he embrace this new career while staying true to his heart as a musician?COMEDY: A a young rocker Bong Dal-ho (Cha Tae-hyun) is recruited by an entertainment company to train as a Trot singer. Trot is a popular genre of music in South Korea. To compare Trot to something American, it's crooning; the kind of music that Michael Buble sings. Most of the movie is spent watching Dal-ho resist because he absolutely abhors the genre. In an effort to avoid embarrassment by disguising his identity when he sings on national television, he accidentally turns him into an overnight sensation.
- DirectorLee Jeong-beomStarsWon BinKim Sae-ronKim Tae-hoonA quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.ACTION/DRAMA: Korea's highest grossing film in 2010. Operating a pawn shop in a small neighborhood, ex-Black ops officer Cha Tae-sik (Won Bin) now leads a quiet life. His only connection to the rest of the world is a little girl, So-mi, who lives next door. So-mi’s mother, Hyo-jeong, is a heroin addict who steals drugs from an organized crime group. She pawns her camera bag to Tae-sik; he does not realize it has the stolen drugs inside. When Oh, a powerful gang boss finds out about the gang's stolen drugs, Oh orders Man-Seok to retrieve the drugs. When Man-Seok's men find out where the drugs are, by torturing Hyo-jeong, they proceed to kidnap her and her daughter.
- DirectorJeong-kwon KimStarsCha Tae-hyunHa Ji-WonJo Ah-raA mentally challenged man trying to keep his mother's only wish alive at any cost while trying to reconcile with his first and only real crush.DRAMA: aka BA BO. Ji-ho is a promising pianist who has been studying and playing abroad for years, but her career takes a blow when she is struck with stage fright. Returning home, Ji-ho is reunited with her old school friend, Seung-ryong, who, although now in his twenties, has been left with the mind of a six year old following an accident. WARNING: Have tissues on hand near the end of the movie.
- DirectorYun-su JeonStarsCha Tae-hyunSong Hye-kyoSong Chang-uiBeautiful student Su-Eun prevents her fellow student Su-Ho to drown in the ocean. Su-Ho however, does not know who saved him, until Su-Eun tells him after a while. The love between them starts to grow, seemingly infinite. But then something terrible happens.DRAMA: A story about true love and happiness. The film starts in modern day Korea where we see Kim Su Ho (Cha Tae-hyun) return to his hometown after ten years to attend a reunion with his high school friends. He sadly strolls as he hears a female voice in his head calling out his name. The film then goes into flashback story of his relationship with his high school sweetheart. WARNING: Have tissues on hand near the end of the movie
- DirectorLee HanStarsJeong Gyu-suKim Ha-neulMi-ne JangJi-hwan is a taekwondo student with a part time job as a stunt man, who dreams of becoming Korea's answer to Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and aspiring actress, but tends to fail auditions because of her timid personality.ROMANTIC COMEDY/DRAMA: Ji-hwan (Kwon Sang-woo) is a taekwondo student with a part-time job as a stunt man who dreams of becoming Korea's answer to Jackie Chan. Dal-rae (Kim Ha-neul) is a drama student and aspiring actress, but tends to fail auditions because of her timid personality. The two are old friends who have grown up together, but their relationship becomes complicated when they each start dating other people
- DirectorKyeong-hyeong KimStarsKim Ha-neulKwon Sang-wooBaek Il-seobA man from a wealthy family who should be in his second year of college, is still finishing his highschool requirements. His family hire a tutor for him who is his own age but she comes from a poor background.ROMANTIC COMEDY/COMEDY: This movie is about Kim Ji-hoon (Kwon Sang-woo) and Choi Su-wan (Kim Ha-neul), both 21 years old. Su-wan is in her second year at university while Ji-hoon is in the process of repeating his senior year of high school (for the third time). Su-wan gets hired to tutor Ji-hoon, a rich troublemaker. Ji-hoon makes Su-wan's life a living hell.
- DirectorJae-young KwakStarsCha Tae-hyunJun Ji-hyunIn-mun KimA young man sees a drunk, cute woman standing too close to the tracks at a metro station in Seoul and pulls her back. She ends up getting him into trouble repeatedly after that, starting on the train.COMEDY: The actually translation of the Korean title is, "That Bizarre Girl". The film tells the love story of a male engineering college student, Gyeon-woo (Cha Tae-hyun) and "the Girl" (who is never named in the movie). Gyeon-woo just cannot seem to catch a romantic break. One evening, at dinner, Gyeon-woo is interrupted by a call from his mother, telling him to visit his aunt and meet a potential date. At the train station on his way to his aunt's, he observes a drunk girl standing precariously close to the edge of the train platform. As the train approaches, he pulls her to safety just in time. Inside the train, Gyeon-woo cannot help but stare at the girl who is his "type" but repulsed by her drunkenness. She throws-up on a passenger and faints, but not before she calls Gyeon-woo "honey". The passenger aggressively chides Gyeon-woo and tells him to take care of his "girlfriend". Gyeon-woo, completely flustered, carries her out of the train station. Not knowing what to do with the unconscious girl and not wanting to leaver her on the street, he takes her to the nearest hotel. Thus begins his comically ill-fated relationship with the Girl.
- DirectorYoung-Tak KimStarsCha Tae-hyunKang Ye-wonLee Moon-suA man's failed suicide attempt enables him to see ghosts, who later keep following him everywhere. It is now up to him to fulfill their wishes to make them go away.COMEDY: A film about a man's multiple failed suicide attempts. After his most recent failed attempt, he discovers he can see a family of ghosts. The ghosts agree to leave him alone under the condition that he fulfill their requests.
- DirectorWon Tae-yeonStarsKwon Sang-wooLee Bo-youngLee Beom-su"K" loves Cream but has terminal cancer so he keeps his love for her secret and tries to find a mate for her before he dies so she will not be alone after he dies.DRAMA: K and C first meet each other in high school; they are both orphans. K was abandoned by his mother after his father died of cancer. C lost her entire family in a traffic accident. The two become soulmates and come to share a home. Though K watches C go from boyfriend to boyfriend, he keeps his own feelings for her to himself. He knows that C's biggest fear is to be left alone, so K keeps the fact that he has terminal cancer a secret, and instead he urges her to find a suitable man to marry. C pursues an affluent doctor and announces to K that she is in love. K is heartbroken, but is satisfied that she has met her ideal partner. A very interesting twist at the end of the movie that I didn't see coming that's reminiscent of the story, "The Gift of The Magi". WARNING: Multiple boxes of tissues will be needed to get through the last 30 minutes of this movie.
- DirectorLee HanStarsCha Tae-hyunSon Ye-jinLee Eun-juA college student befriends two cute girls his age. He loses contact with them. He tries to find them years later.DRAMA: Lee Ji-hwan (Cha Tae-hyun) receives photographs in the mail that remind him of how he met two girls, Shim Soo-in (Son Ye-jin) and Kim Gyung-hee (Lee Eun-ju), one summer five years earlier.
- DirectorJong-kwan KwonStarsJung Woo-sungLim Soo-jungCha Tae-hyunThis film follows the lives of four very different couples as they deal with love, loss and life in these romantic, loosely interconnected tales.DRAMA: Ensemble cast with separate/intersecting stories. Sad movie is a sad movie. WARNING: Multiple boxes of tissue may be necessary.
- StarsKam-Tong ChanCOMEDY: IMDb doesn't have a listing for this 2009 comedy. Hong Mu-Hyeok (Lee Beom-Soo) is the 18th generation descendant of Hong Kil-dong (famous Robin Hood like character). By day, Hong Mu-Hyeok works as a high school music teacher, but by night works as a Hong Kil-dong like thief. His rival is Lee Jeong-Min (Kim Su-Ro), a cold blooded businessman known to bribe politicians for personal gains.
- DirectorJi-Hong JooJihong JuStarsJang HyukJang-hyeon LeeSan KangTwo strangers wander in a chronicle of the past and old wounds.DRAMA: A love story / road movie about a man who suffers from a rare heart disease and a woman who’s searching for her past.
May (Sung Yu-Ri) is a Korean-American adoptee who returns to South Korea after 23 years. More than anything she wants to find her identity. Eun-Seol (Jang Hyuk) is a taxi cab driver who helps her. - DirectorHeo In-mooStarsKwon Sang-wooHa Ji-WonKim In-kwonKyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment, he and his comic relief friend Seon-dal are sent away to a small church in rural Korea to work in a sort of 'priest limbo' until they get their act together. Upon his arrival, Kyu-sik ends up in an awkward position with a groggy Bong-hee, a pretty girl who just flew in from America to visit her uncle-the priest of the rural church. However, Bong-hee's true reason for coming is to see her beloved boyfriend, but things don't go terribly smoothly and she is stuck in the church without a way home. Of course, all while she and Kyu-sik are slowly testing each other's nerves. Hate soon amounts to affection and the film gradually moves from playfully mean situations to the cute fuzzy ones banking on Kwon Sang-woo's and Ha Ji-won's endearing chemistry.COMEDY: A young priest falls in love with a chic young woman and soon must choose between his religious calling and the charms of a sexy parishioner.
- DirectorYoung-hoon ParkStarsMoon Geun-youngKeon-hyeong ParkSong Ha-yoonIn pursuit of a triumphant comeback, a former dancing star imports a teenage phenom to play the role of his partner, only to discover that she barely has any experience. Can he train her to dance like a champ in just three months?DRAMA: Former acclaimed dancer Na Young-Sae (Park Geon-Hyeong) attempts to make a comeback after an injury. Young-Sae needs a partner and brings Jang Chae-Rin (Moon Geun-Young), an ethnic Korean from China (who he presumes is a highly talented dancer) to Korea. When she arrives, Young-Sae soon learns Chae-Rin is an inexperienced dancer and her older sister is the talented dancer. With only three months until the Dance Championship, Young-Sae attempts to turn Chae-Rin into a world-class dancer.
- DirectorGeon-dong LeeStarsCha Tae-hyunKim Seon-aPark Yeong-gyuBoth a cop, who dreams of clearing the Korean spa town of gangsters, and the local gangster boss are in love with the bowling alley girl. Who gets to spend Christmas/her birthday with her?COMEDY: This movie was really weird.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsSong Kang-hoLee Byung-hunJung Woo-sungThe story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.DARK COMEDY: Picture the Wild Wild West in Korea.